#!/usr/bin/python2 # Copyright 2009 Nick White # # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # See for a copy of the GNU General # Public License. import urllib2 from cookielib import CookieJar from urllib import urlencode from optparse import OptionParser from os import getenv # defaults username = '' password = '' filename = 'lwn.html' login_url = 'https://lwn.net/login' bigpage_url = 'https://lwn.net/current/bigpage?format=printable' # parse arguments parser = OptionParser() parser.add_option("-u", "--user", dest="username", default=username, help="lwn username") parser.add_option("-p", "--pass", dest="password", default=password, help="lwn password") parser.add_option("-f", "--file", dest="filename", default=filename, help="name of file to save to", metavar="FILE") parser.add_option("-d", "--direct", dest="direct", default=False, help="connect directly, bypassing any proxies", action="store_true") (options, args) = parser.parse_args() # set up cookiejar to use credentials=urlencode({'Username': options.username, 'Password': options.password}) cookiejar = CookieJar() cookie_handler = urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cookiejar) # set up proxy proxyaddr = getenv('HTTP_PROXY') if options.direct == True or not proxyaddr: opener = urllib2.build_opener(cookie_handler) else: proxy_handler = urllib2.ProxyHandler({'http': proxyaddr, 'https': proxyaddr}) opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy_handler, cookie_handler) # login, then retrieve page opener.open(login_url, credentials) f = opener.open(bigpage_url) # save to a file savefile = open(options.filename, 'w') savefile.write(f.read()) savefile.close